Chapter 41 The Past - Between Sisters and Sisters

"Hey, Shishi, is this the orphan you had been pestering for a long time and must bring your father back to adopt?"

A small town outside a big city in northwestern Hubei, a remote village outside the town. A small river surrounded the village and circled half of the village. Outside the river was fields, and inside the river was dozens of families. Brick walls, stone courtyards, red tiles and rich doors, the world was very lively in 2004, but this small village was very quiet. In an ordinary small courtyard that was endless and not rich, a middle-aged woman opened her eyes widened and looked at her 14 or 15-year-old daughter in front of her, and then looked at the little boy who was less than 1.4 meters behind her, who was said to have just turned ten years old, holding her daughter's hand, and had great doubts and warnings about everything that was unfamiliar around her.

"Where...what has been wrapped for a long time..." The girl, known as "Shishi", has a waist-length hair, a round face, a slightly trunk nose, a autumn-like eyes, curved eyebrows, and a simple dress. Although she is not old, she begins to show her plump figure. Her right arm, like a white lotus root, was now being held by the little boy, just like the best shield at the necessary moment. When she heard her mother say this, she pouted slightly.

"Besides, mom..." After a little embarrassed, the girl quickly took two steps forward and walked to the middle-aged woman, "Don't talk about orphans anymore, look at him... how pitiful he is. Since Dad has agreed to adopt him, this will be his home in the future!"

"Okay, Shishi is so loving, mom likes it!" The middle-aged woman smiled softly. "Good child, this place will be your home in the future," she said, looking at the little boy behind the girl's body with a loving look on her face, "Come on, call me mom."

"I don't want it." The boy browsed, "I have my own mother, why should I recognize you?"

“…”

The boy who was trapped in a sudden earthquake for several days and survived by chance not only has an astonishing vitality but also has an unexpected temper. In some things, he is even more paranoid and entangled.

"I don't have a sister, so I recognize a sister. I have parents, so why do I still recognize others!"

The middle-aged woman suddenly understood why her daughter's father had been negotiating with her daughter for a long time, but she was reluctant to adopt this poor little brat at the beginning.

"Hey, Ono, Ono, hurry up! Let's go back! It's going to rain heavily!"

In the gloomy sky, under the thick dark clouds, there is a high weir. On one side of the weir is a 1,000-meter lake surrounded by hills on three sides and earth dikes on the other side, which is used to release water from the stone pipe passage below to irrigate farmland during the dry season. On the other side of the weir are mugwort that grows about one and a half meters high, as well as tall and short trees growing on the slope of the embankment. The girl of fifteen or sixteen was standing next to two short trees that were close to each other, shouting to the teenage kid not far away with eager expression.

"What's the hurry? Sister, hasn't the rain fall yet..." The little brat hugged his shorts and said impatiently. He was not wearing a top, just a pair of shorts on his body. At this time, he was bare-body, bent over, and tried hard to use his small arms to fold mugwort one by one in front of a half-dead mugwort bush, "I'll put it first before going back!"

He wanted to use a pile of mugwort branches to build a small house of his own between two small trees through the trunks, and then move in with his sister.

"It's so soon!" The girl became even more anxious when she heard him say this. The girl was only wearing a white top and a white skirt. The place she didn't wrap her clothes, revealing her white skin as white as snow.

"Wait a little longer!" the little boy replied without looking back. Then, he hugged the broken mugwort with his left hand, and began to step up the damage to the greening of the small village with his right hand.

Three minutes later.

"Everyone said, Ono, I should have run home first!" Heavy rain fell from the sky. Although the little boy quickly built a small thatched hut and borrowed the blue hairband on his sister's head to tie the "roof beam" on the tree trunk, the two brothers hid in together, but in the face of the crazy heavy rain in summer, the house made of several mugwort branches could obviously not have a substantial rain shelter. So the two brothers hid in the "house" and were soaked thoroughly by the rainwater leaking from the roof. The sister looked at the little boy with dissatisfaction and said with resentment.

"Ah snee!" The little boy responded with a big sneeze without hesitation.

"..." The girl who wanted to deliberately get angry just now, all the "resentment" on her face disappeared.

A few days of each month, the little boy missed his true relatives very much. This situation has been maintained for a year. In these days, it was the whole year when his real relatives left him. The little boy dreamed of kicking the quilt away last night, but he had a headache and a runny nose early in the morning. Now he ran out to play regardless of everything, and caught up with the heavy rain. The boy who once survived tenaciously in the earthquake looked so weak at this time.

"Ono, are you okay? Now... are you having a better headache?"

"Ah Yeh!"

"It's true. I'm sick and I have to run out. I'm getting wet now--Come on, my head is shrunk, my sister holds you."

“…”

"Does it feel better?"

"Sister... your nose is blocked..."

"Sister, is your mother's illness better?"

"Why……"

“…”

"What's wrong, Ono? Why are you looking at me like this?"

"It's been three or four years. Every time I say 'your mother', you have to correct me seriously and insist on saying 'my mother'-but today you... say..."

"Stop talking, Ono, mom..."

"What about those people outside who were holding some messy flowers and trying to enter this ward?"

"I'm not in the mood to see them."

"Yes, they are not here to visit the disease. Mom all want to 'take the opportunity to rob'! Really, wait for me to go out and blow them away."

"Ono..."

"Even their foolish faces are worthy of my sister?"

"Ono, that...my sister is planning to get married."

"Uh... don't tell me (marriage partner) is the fat man with an idiot look that came yesterday. What did you say about him a few days ago - big belly!"

"Ono, don't...don't mention that word in the future..."

"Sister, you can't be honest."

"It's true."

"I don't believe it. Give me a reason first. Even that idiot is worthy of you?"

"He...he has money..."

"ha?!"

"Mom... Mom's illness can no longer be delayed, and we really can't be delayed anymore. Our family has no money and cannot afford the surgery and future hospitalization fees... I... do you understand what I mean... do you understand?"

"Sister, I'll ask again, are you really serious?"

"Yes."

"Will you be happy in the future if you marry that guy?"

"As long as my mother's illness can be cured, I..."

"Ono, where are you? That... my sister is going to get engaged. It will be my sister's wedding in about half a month. Can't you come?"

"I'm outside, I won't be back."

"Ah? Ono, what's wrong with you?"

"For a man, watching his sister have to marry a man he hates, but I am completely powerless, this is the greatest shame in my life - the shame of being a man!"

"Ono, you..."

"One day I will make a name for myself, and I will have the ability to control a person's destiny. Now, I have a big brother who can call the wind and rain. One day, I will make a name for myself. Sister, you don't have to worry about me anymore, I don't want to hear your voice anymore. I wish you happiness."

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, don't stop answering the phone. There is really something urgent to come to you at home!"

"What a mess? Don't bother me. Boss Tianfa is going to teach a group of little fish a lesson today. I'm changing my clothes!"

"You... don't go first! Here! Your family said that your sister hopes to see you for the last time!"

"What?!!"

"Sister! Sister! You can't die. Isn't tomorrow your wedding date?"

"Ono...Sister...Sister I'm sorry for you, my sister can't continue to look at you, I want to... take a step first..."

"Sister...that damn driver!"

"Ono, don't... don't blame the driver... My sister is leaving, I don't want to drag down... I'll drag others down... You hear from my sister that it's actually... it's my sister who ran the red light and couldn't blame others... You don't want... my sister doesn't want to really get married... I hope my sister's insurance premium can cure my mother's illness - at that moment, maybe this is what... my sister thinks in her heart... So... don't blame... the driver......"

"Sister! Sister, wake up! Don't close your eyes! Wake up!!! Sister!"

At that moment, I was not the sick mother of my sister, nor the driver who bumped into her, but only...

I myself.

For those years, I was powerless to do anything about my family, my relatives, and my sister - myself.

"You always said: I want to live forever. If I die, what will my dear brother do? Sister, now, really, what should I do?"

"You used to say: One day, I will see my brother looking handsome and becoming a big man. Sister, now, why, why don't you look at me anymore?"
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